Answered by kerrie
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Aug. 14, 2014 22:55
there is a huge restort/tourist town being built at the bottom of the mountain with plenty of accomodation. however this is not inside the national park (though it is after the ticket puchasing/bus station building.) i was told that if i stayed here i would need to buy a new bus/admission ticket for each day i wanted to go into the park (and at 160y per time for the park entrance fee/bus ticket its not cheap...) so i decided not to. if there is accomodation in the park its not clearly marked. there is one hut at the 3400m mark where people can stay but if you are foreign its 120y for a bed in a shared room.
there is accomodation above this, in small temples but foreigners are not allowed to go there. chinese people can also wild camp on the mountain.
you dont really need a guide, as the path is clearly marked, but maybe if you have a guide you will be able to go to the top of the mountain, as if you are a foreigner travelling alone you are not allowed to go above 3400m. apparently people have been allowed to in the past but on the 2 days that i visited the people manning the checkpoint refused to let me go past and said that foreigners have never been allowed to go there... one of them even said "its a chinese mountain for chinese people..."
i came back to xi an feeling disappointed and someone said i would have been better going to mt tiantai in baoji or to the red river valley instead. i dont have time to go there but maybe they are worth looking at instead.
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